Wagon-axle



WAGON AXLB. n No. 288,828. Patented Nov. 8, 1888.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN MARSHALL OOOMBS, OF FORT WAYNE, INDIANA.

WAGON-AXLE.

SPECIFICATIONforming part of Letters Patent No. 288,029, dated November 6, 1883. K

v Application led September 3,1883. (No model.)

.To all whom it muy concern:

' Be it known that I, J oHN MARsHALL Cocinas, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Fort Wayne, in the county 5 of Allen and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Thinible-Truss Skeins for lVagon-Axles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description 0f the invention, such 1o as will enable others skilled in the artto which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention, relates to certain improve ments in axle-skeins, and it has for its objects to provide for securing the same to the axle r 5 and bracing thern to each other when in place,

as more fully hereinafter speciiied. These objects I attain by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Fignre l representsa view, partly in section 2o andpartly in elevation, showing my invention.

Fig. 2 represents a cross-section takenon the line m x ci' Fig. l; and Fig. 3 represents an ele vation of an axle, showing my invention applied thereto.

The letter A indicates an axle-skein, which is provided on its lower side, atthe inner end, with an enlargement, B, which is slotted or recessed longitudinally, as indicated by the letter C, for the reception of` the end of the 3o truss-har l), which passes under the axle and connects the skeins at each end of the saine.

The enlargement and lower wall of the skein are drilled and perforated, as well as the endV of the truss-bar, for the passage of a screw, E, which extends' up into the axle, as indicated in Fig. 1 ofthe drawings.

The screw may be ginilet-pointed, as indicated in the drawings, so as to be driven directly into the wood of the axle, or it may be cutshort and driven into asuitablehole bored in the axle for its reception. The queenbolts F are passed through suitable apertures in the trussbars, so as to bind the same iirnily to the axle.

Having thus described iny invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

The combination, with the axle of the skeins A, having longitudinally-slotted enlargements at their lower sides, of the vbent trussbars D, the through-bolts F, and the screws G, thelatter passing through the skein and truss-bar into the body of the axle, whereby the whole are secured together, substantially as specied.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses. Y

JOHN MARSHALL COOMBS.

Witnesses:

WILL A. DIFFENDERFER, FREDERICK A. NEWTON. 

